Ahead of you sits the Sedona Ranger Station, a wood-frame bungalow the U.S. Forest Service built in 1917 to administer the Red Rock Ranger District of Coconino National Forest in Sedona, Arizona. The complex you see was conceived as a working hub: a residence, a barn and a pump house. The house is a wood-frame, single-story bungalow-style building set on a sandstone foundation; notice the low profile and the footprint that mark its design.
In 1935 the Civilian Conservation Corps added the barn and the pump house — sturdy, utilitarian companions to the bungalow. The barn was built to U.S. Forest Service standard plan R-3-45A-7, a detail that ties this group of buildings to federal design and care. At some point the property passed into private hands before 2008, and on August 29, 2008, the site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, recognizing its role in managing these lands.
Trace that story from the sandstone foundation up to the bungalow, then across to the 1935 barn and pump house standing watch over the Red Rock Ranger District.